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"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."
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"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."
"Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America."
"It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point."
"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."
"Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy."
"Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination."
"There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back."
"If you believe that discrimination exists, it will."
"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
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"What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party."
"The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival."
"The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense."
"There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms."
"I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people."
"The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled."
"Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense."
"In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same."
"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press."
"Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob."
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